Tomato Cage Ghost

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I usually decorate my porch for Halloween. The neighbors then tend to sort of glance at my house incredulously and then walk faster until they’re well away from my property line. Bunch of party-poopers. Some people just don’t appreciate the magic of fake spiderwebs and purple LED lights.

These ghosts are made out of tomato cages, white Christmas lights, and sheets, all of which I happened to have.

The tomato cages are from my failed tomato adventure from a few summers ago. (I planted four tomato plants and got three tomatoes… total.)

The Christmas lights actually lit up the whole way when I plugged them in (which I guarantee you they won’t do when it’s time to put them out for Christmas).

And I happen to have a bunch of extra white flat sheets because the fitted ones always rip and I can’t bring myself to throw away the perfectly-fine top sheet even though I don’t have a matching fitted sheet anymore.

Please ignore that my stairs are dirty. I did vacuum them last week but I have a dog, and lo, she is hairy.

I should have followed the directions and bent the bottom of the tomato cage into a softer shape (you’ll see why momentarily), but instead I just masking-taped that shit together and started stringing lights.

Heheheh. The tomato cage KKK ghost does look pretty bad. I wouldn’t put it on my porch either. However, I have done the tomato cage Christmas tree thing. I wrapped 2 small and 1 large tomato cages in lights – but it really takes a TON of lights per cage to get the proper effect. Like 8 strands of lights per cage. (I lucked out by going to the Dollar Store and finding plain white lights). If you completely encase the cages in the lights, they don’t look bad during the day (green wires) and they look gorgeous at night.

Son of a bitch. I’m beginning to think all the freakin’ crafts on pinterest are put there by trolls bent on my humiliation and hours/money spent. Doodling on a mug with a sharpie and thrownin’ it in the oven for a half hour at 350? Yeah. Then don’t put it in the dishwasher and to me, that means never using that mug again. Nancy hand washes nothing. And the foam pumpkin with the Christmas light sticking out of it? Looks like an ode to Hell Raiser in real life. Nice in a pic: Some spikey monstrosity in 3D. I’ve posted pics to them on my fb but I don’t know how to put them on pinterest. If you’d like to see them on fb, I believe they’re available to the public to see. I’m Nancy Couturier in Charlottesville, VA.

Seriously, your blog needs to come with a warning message: “Do not read while at work or while drinking hot liquids!” Trying to suppress a major giggle fit and snorting hot coffee through my nose — Not the professional image of myself I like to pretend to put out there.

Hehehe, I really enjoyed this. looks just like what most of my friends would do. :DThis one will work though. You either bend the the top of the tomato cage down so it is rounded or flip it altogether and put the pointy end in the ground. then take a wire hanger unbend it and run it through the middle sections for the arms. as per the eyes I’d go with black foam cut outs and safety pins because I am not going to tell you to ruin a sheet.

I should put the KKK inspired ghost on my porch because maybe that will stop the religious fanatics from knocking on my door on Halloween. They come, they tell me I’m supporting the devil and I am going to burn in hell. All because I’m handing out candy. I’ll take any thing I can get to get rid of the crazies.

I’ve put some real crap on my porch but I would not put that thing out. I’m thinking of a “Pinhead” pumpkin but I’m pretty sure I’m gonna make a dog’s dinner out of that. Just in case, I’m gonna have some booze handy and sit out on my front stoop drinking and tell everyone I’m a wino for Halloween.

I put my halloween decorations up oct. 1 around 11 am…yesterday morning I arrived home from work and my neighbors put up their halloween decorations…the exact. same. ones. as me. FFS, douches. So of course I went out and bought severed limbs and tombstones and bones and more lights and tomorrow im going to get strobe lights and pumpkins for my jackolanterns…copy my decorations, we’ll see bout that! =]

Oddly, I didn’t get the KKK feeling from it. It reminded me of Jr. High. When the boys walked around with embarassing pointed bulges in their pants they desperately wanted to hide…. The Haunted Erection. DUN DUN DUN>…

We did these ghosts also. When we went to get our tomato cages from the back yard, we discovered they were three legged and thought, “what the hell now!?” But with a bit of improvising, we bent two legs out for arms, bent the third over for a rounded head, and found a wire coat hanger that we straightened then added to make the head a bit more rounded and full. Embroidered ghost faces on our sheets we picked up at goodwill, and there we had it. Two fun ghosts. We did our lights so they blink, and it’s super fun looking. http://pinterest.com/pin/44754590018553673/
On a side note, I saw someone else in my grandma’s neighborhood, had tried to do them, and they failed big time. They just stuck the cages in the ground round side up, and threw lights and a sheet on.